Full FeedConsumers spend $1 billion on Guitar Hero III
Hats off to Guitar Hero III, the first ever game to reach one billion dollars in sales. It only took 26 months to do it too. Activision, the publisher of this phenomenal game, announced that the Guitar Hero franchise reached over a billion dollars in revenues (according to data from… Continue Reading »
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FROM GADGETELL - The Consumer Electronics Show is the highlight of our year. We get to fondle all of the shiny new toys that most people won’t be seeing for months, sometimes even years. Unfortunately the Gadgetell team has departed Las Vegas, and our live coverage of the show floor has come to… MORE »
CES 2009: Microsoft prepares for year of Halo overload
Halo has gone from being a mere video game to a full scale phenomenon and the engine shows no signs of stopping. Its third installment has sold an amazing 8 million copies and sold $170 million worth of games in the US in its first 24 hours. In his keynote… Continue Reading »
Rock Band 3 breaking annual release cycle
Due at least in part to developing a Beatles-themed music game (and building a Fort Knox-style complex to house money raked in from said game), Harmonix will not release a Rock Band game in 2009. That word came from Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopolous during an interview at Billboard’s “Digital Music… Continue Reading »
CES 2009: Blu-ray format could be in jeopardy, might bring down PS3 with it
It’s fitting that the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) takes place in Las Vegas, because at this show we learn which companies have gambler’s instincts. Sony went all in betting that Blu-ray technology would win the next-gen video disc wars, adding Blu-ray capability to its PlayStation 3 consoles. Microsoft, on the… Continue Reading »
CES 2009: SanDisk selling Rock Band 2 SD Cards for Wii
It’s very difficult to have a game that relies so heavily on extra downloadable content such as Rock Band 2 on the Wii after seeing what its PS3 and Xbox 360 counterparts have to offer. Since the Wii doesn’t have a hard drive, owners have been forced to buy SD… Continue Reading »
CES 2009: Lenovo to show off IdeaCentre gaming PC with remote controller
We shouldn’t count the PC market out of the casual gaming market just yet. This generation has rammed motion controls into our brains courtesy of the Nintendo Wii and Lenovo is hoping to capitalize on the idea. The company has revealed the IdeaCentre A600 All-in-One Desktop that comes with a… Continue Reading »
Toshiba introduces the most powerful HDTVs ever, powered by Cell
FROM GADGETELL - Click for a larger image. Toshiba has finally made good use of the cell processor—one of the most powerful chipsets (you may know it from the Sony PlayStation 3 processor). This will bring some amazing features into your home such as simultaneous HD viewing (up to 4 channels at once),… MORE »
CES 2009 Keynote: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
FROM GADGETELL - We have begun to prep for the Steve Ballmer press conference. This is going to be interesting since Bill Gates has given the CES opening keynote for over 10 years. We have seen Steve going absolutely crazy in the past: screaming, yelling, and sweating beyond control. More recently he has… MORE »
CES 2009: Capcom to show off Street Fighter IV, Resident Evil 5
Yes, we always talk about how game companies should do different things. But when you look at the sales charts, sequels keep raking in the bucks. There’s something safe about the familiar games that always deliver. Capcom has two such franchises in Resident Evil and Street Fighter and the latest… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
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